Major John felt as though the sky had fallen. No matter what, he had never expected to suddenly receive an order that was practically a death sentence.
Not to mention that the commander-in-chief of the ground forces fighting the Allied Forces was Doran, the Empire's famously cowardly future five-star general. Carrying out a mission under him was no different from being cannon fodder.
Just thinking about the 241 warships the Allied Forces had deployed all at once during the later stages of the Fauken Bay War—
That sight, nearly covering the entire sea like a moving black tsunami, was enough to make him feel an unprecedented suffocation.
What was more, the Empire's Mage Soldiers would struggle to achieve their intended effects against the Saga Kingdom's Shadow Orc Forces.
Their ability to completely conceal their presence, along with their ability to blend into darkness—similar to, yet distinct from, the Black Eagle Special Forces—
Unless they remained in one stronghold without moving and waited for him to lead a Mage Squad in to bomb them, there was simply no way he could wipe out such a troublesome force.
Even if he eliminated a small unit, as long as the Mage Soldiers did not return to the Imperial Army's main base and instead camped in the wilderness, they would inevitably suffer nighttime raids.
If there was any lapse in their night watch, getting wiped out entirely was not impossible.
On top of that, the Allied Forces' Heim Alchemical Technology had now completed its adjustments. The Hellfire Suicide Doll Legion, a first-generation experimental product, would also make its grand debut in this campaign, using its cheap yet terrifying self-destruction—
To brutally crush the Empire's flesh-and-blood soldiers with the power known as technology.
And what did the Empire have by comparison?
One future five-star fleeing